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“My enemy once said to me, "Love your enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.”
― Kahil Gibran, The Prophet Pocket Edition

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“He died the way all men did, one breath at a time.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“And will 'a not come again?
And will 'a not come again?
No, no, he is dead,
Go to thy death bed:
He will never come again.”
― William Shakespeare

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our character isn't defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we chose to fight,”
― Robert Beatty

“Don't walk in front of me...I may not follow. Don't walk behind me...I may not lead. Walk beside me...just be my friend.”
― Albert Camus

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with the night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare

“I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything.”
― Steven Wright

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
― Ezra Pound

“I am a city by the sea
sinking into a toxic tide”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place. I only occasionally turn you over in my brain.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips.
Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right.
You see?
Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak (The Book Thief), The Book Thief

“A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.
And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Half a century of existence may lie before me -- how am I to occupy it?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace